Courtesy of Judith Gregg Librarian Catherine Arbogast heads out with a personalized book delivery from the Los Altos main library.

Love of learning and curiosity about the world sometimes grow only more urgent as a person spends more and more time at home, limited by age, health condition, or both. Librarians head out from the Los Altos main l...

Already known as an innovator in the tech field, Google Inc. is now moving in on the art world.

The Mountain View-based company July 11 launched the “Paint the Town” contest, a “moving art experiment” that invites California residents over the age of 13 to submit physical or digital artwork that would decorate the door...

Traci Newell/Town Crier The six-week, tuition-free Stretch to Kindergarten program, hosted at Bullis Charter School, serves children who have not attended preschool. A teacher leads children in singing about the parts of a butterfly, above.

courtesy of Rishi Bommannan Rishi Bommannan cycled from Bates College in Maine to his home in Los Altos Hills, taking several selfies along the way. He also raised nearly $13,000 for the Livestrong Foundation, which supports cancer patients.

The Town Crier’s recent article on coyotes venturing down from the foothills in search of sustenance referenced the organization Project Coyote (“Recent coyote attacks keep residents on edge,” July 1). Do not waste your time contac...

Photos by Alicia Castro/Town Crier Local residents participate in an exercise class at the Grant Park Senior Center, above. Betsy Reeves, below left with Gail Enenstein, lobbied for senior programming in south Los Altos.

Grace Wilson Franks, our beloved mother and grandmother, left us peacefully on July 16, 2015 just a few weeks short of her 92nd birthday. She was born to Ross and Florence (Cruzan) Wilson in rural Tulare, California on Septem...

Most of us have a place inside our hearts and minds that occasionally causes us trouble. For some, it is sadness, depression or despair. For others, it may be fear, anger, resentment or myriad other emotional “dark places” that at times seem to hij...

Juice ends on Main St.

The former home of Jamba Juice in Los Altos remains vacant for now. Property owner Bart Nelson said he’s actively seeking a new, “larger” tenant for the property, suggesting that A.G. Ferrari might not continue to occupy its spot in the corner building at 275 Main St. The third occupant of the building, Los Altos Pharmacy, was purchased by Safeway last year and will move to the new Safeway under construction on First Street.

Suspects lead police on chase through Los Altos

Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Officers assumed that they were making a routine traffic stop after they witnessed a car with passengers not wearing seatbelts completing an illegal U-turn on Foothill Expressway at Homestead Road shortly after midnight Sept. 12.

But when the 1998 gold Toyota Camry abruptly turned onto a residential street in Los Altos instead of coming to a stop, alarm bells sounded.

According to Capt. Ken Binder, three of the six passengers in the vehicle suddenly fled into an adjacent residential area of Los Altos, resulting in a manhunt that included members of the Los Altos Police Department, who formed a perimeter on the edges of the search area.

Sheriff’s deputies eventually apprehended five of the six passengers. A canine unit conducted a yard-to-yard search for the final passenger – but to no avail.

Binder added that at least one neighbor aided in the search by providing tips to officers at the scene.

Deputies later found two loaded handguns in the car, including one that was stolen, after the suspects’ arrest.

According to Binder, authorities believe the suspects may be connected to a residential shooting in San Jose that occurred the day before.

The suspects – all of them San Jose residents – range in age from 18 to 21 and were arrested on charges of resisting arrest, possession of stolen property and possession of firearms.

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